Washington, United States.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered the restoration of a foster care program for minors El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, which is intended as an alternative that avoids dangerous journey that some kids do meets his parents in the United States.
Through this program, the US government will collect To them minors where they continue Central America and that they comply a set of requirements with them fatheryes, as long as these reside legally in American Territory.
This program was created by the former president Barack Obama (2009-2017) and almost managed to reunite 5,000 minors with their families huntil it was eliminated four years ago, the State Department said in a statement.
The Central American Minors (CAM) program is being restored in two phases: first, the to request what was left slopes then the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) ended the program in 2017 and then they will start running accept new requests.
According to the State Department, the U.S. authorities already have a list of the cases pending in 2017 that could be reopened, so contact the government now. parents what they applied for asylum for your children to prove that they are still legally resident in the US and that they want to proceed with the request.
Those first contacts with parents could to start how fast this Mar. 15.
Once these checks are carried out, a center for the reception of refugees that the United States has The Savior contact minors who can benefit from this and who live in this country, Guatemala and Honduras, detailed the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the note.
When Obama drafted the program, it was determined that minors coming to the United States were entitled to the status of legal permanent residence and after five years they could apply US Citizenship.
The government of Biden It has not yet given details on how long the minors could stay in the US and under what conditions.
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Biden’s announcement comes at a time when the arrival at the border of Central American migrants trying to enter the United States has skyrocketed. irregular way and that they are fleeing violence and lack of opportunity in them countries of origin, in addition to the disaster caused by recent hurricanes.
The number of minors trying to enter the United States is laid off and, according to figures accessible to The New York Times, 3,250 migrant children they have been detained for the past two weeks.
Those 3,250 minors are being held migrant centers located near the border. EFE